There will be 3 lecture series (4 sessions per series): André Henriques (Universiteit Utrecht, NL): "The string group via conformal nets" Notes are available here (for the first three lectures) and ...
In the 1960s, the charismatic physicist Geoffrey Chew espoused a radical vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an ...
The study of conformal (angle-preserving) maps has a long history. Since the earth is curved, any geographical map has to distort either angles or sizes. For navigation, conformality - preserving ...